ScriptRock Launches IT Automation Partner Ecosystem

Thursday, 15 May 2014

SAN FRANCISCO - May 14, 2014 - ScriptRock, Inc., the leading cloud-based configurationmonitoring platform for DevOps, announced today the launch of a new partner ecosystem to help application owners, developers and system administrators bring their dynamic IT environments under control.

ScriptRock is partnering with eleven of the major continuous delivery, deployment and automation tools. The GuardRail platform is now integrated with world-class vendors and cloud providers to enable unprecedented choice, flexibility and interoperability, while providing enterprises with the visibility & control needed to accelerate IT automation for increased velocity and cost savings.

ScriptRock offers support for all major cloud infrastructure providers includingAmazon Web Services, Rackspace, Softlayer and Digital Ocean and is integrated with:

■ Ansible

■ Citrix

■ Chef

■ Docker

■ Puppet

■ VMware

■ Windows

■ Powershell DSC

The DevOps movement is used in enterprises to drive innovation and accelerate the delivery of quality software. In a recentTechInsight survey of 1,300 respondents from large organizations across the globe, two-thirds have a DevOps strategy currently in place or plan to implement one1.Pieter Kemps, who is responsible for managingAmazon’s relationship with the startup and venture capitalist community inAsia, recently noted that enterprises are using startups to enable their own innovation. Kemps mentioned ScriptRock as a startup offering this in the DevOps space, and cited GuardRail customers like ADP, E*TRADEand ANZ Bankas evidence of this trend.

“Historically, enterprise ITteams have struggled to balance increased speed with quality of code,” said Mike Baukes, co-founder and co-CEO of ScriptRock. “DevOps promotes better collaboration and GuardRail’sAPI-based approach delivers a powerful next-generation platform that helps customers get end-to-end visibility of their entire dynamic ITinfrastructure without requiring a PhD. ScriptRock is partnering with some of the most powerful ITautomation tools in the market, and we’re excited to leverage these partnerships to help large enterprises speed up innovation and gain insights that were previously unavailable.”

“Achieving IT velocity through automation is a business imperative, and ScriptRock and Puppet Labs' continued partnership helps customers with this transition,” said Luke Kanies, CEO of Puppet Labs. “ScriptRock is an on-ramp to automation and our history of collaboration and integration is great news for our customers. We look forward to building on our partnership in the years to come.”

For more information about the partnerships and integrations between GuardRail and leading IT automation tools, please visit:

Guardrail is the first and only on-demand, cloud-based configuration monitoring platform that activates DevOps by providing IT enterprises the ability to discover, monitoring and control configurations across their dynamic datacenter. GuardRail simplifies configuration management so that businesses can focus on shipping features, not fixing configurations. GuardRail is used by leading enterprises including ADP, Citrix, GSA, Trek Bicycles and Microsoft.

About ScriptRock

ScriptRock is a DevOps startup that helps enterprises rapidly deliver software without being burdened by configuration management, across internal or externally managed services. Serving more than 400 enterprises worldwide, ScriptRock specializes in DevOps and configuration monitoring with a strong emphasis on simplicity and ease-of-use. ScriptRock is based in Palo Alto, CA and is backed by Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technology investor Peter Thiel with Valar Ventures, 500 Ventures, Starfish Ventures and Square Peg Capital.